1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5996-1

USN-5996-1: Liblouis vulnerabilities

Publication date

4 April 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in liblouis.

Releases

Packages

  • liblouis - Braille translation library - utilities

Details

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-26767, CVE-2023-26768, CVE-2023-26769)

It was discovered that Liblouis incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-26767, CVE-2023-26768, CVE-2023-26769)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
22.10 kinetic liblouis20 –  3.22.0-2ubuntu0.1
liblouis-bin –  3.22.0-2ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy liblouis20 –  3.20.0-2ubuntu0.2
liblouis-bin –  3.20.0-2ubuntu0.2
20.04 focal liblouis20 –  3.12.0-3ubuntu0.2
liblouis-bin –  3.12.0-3ubuntu0.2
18.04 bionic liblouis-bin –  3.5.0-1ubuntu0.5
python-louis –  3.5.0-1ubuntu0.5
16.04 xenial liblouis9 –  2.6.4-2ubuntu0.4+esm1  
liblouis-bin –  2.6.4-2ubuntu0.4+esm1  

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